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National Election Study, 1944 (ICPSR 7210)

Principal Investigator(s):
National Opinion Research Center

Summary:

This study was conducted in two waves, before and after the
1944 presidential election. Of the 2,564 respondents surveyed in the
first wave, 2,030 were reinterviewed after the election. Respondents
were queried about their party identification, opinions on postwar
issues, voting intentions and expectations about the outcome of the
election, sources of political information, the importance they
attached to the election, and who they believed to be candidates
Franklin Roosevelt's and Thomas Dewey's supporters. In addition,
open-ended questions tapped areas the respondents considered to be
major problems, campaign issues that influenced their vote, party
differences, evaluations of major presidential candidates, and the
candidates' ability to deal with specified problems. Post-election
questions (V79-V123) elicited the respondents' opinions on post-war
political and economic issues, the electoral campaign, and Roosevelt's
reelection. Variables also probed the respondents' actual voting
behavior and the reasons for their choice. Demographic data include
sex, race, age group, and level of education, as well as ethnic and
religious affiliations.

This study was conducted in two waves, before and after the
1944 presidential election. Of the 2,564 respondents surveyed in the
first wave, 2,030 were reinterviewed after the election. Respondents
were queried about their party identification, opinions on postwar
issues, voting intentions and expectations about the outcome of the
election, sources of political information, the importance they
attached to the election, and who they believed to be candidates
Franklin Roosevelt's and Thomas Dewey's supporters. In addition,
open-ended questions tapped areas the respondents considered to be
major problems, campaign issues that influenced their vote, party
differences, evaluations of major presidential candidates, and the
candidates' ability to deal with specified problems. Post-election
questions (V79-V123) elicited the respondents' opinions on post-war
political and economic issues, the electoral campaign, and Roosevelt's
reelection. Variables also probed the respondents' actual voting
behavior and the reasons for their choice. Demographic data include
sex, race, age group, and level of education, as well as ethnic and
religious affiliations.

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Dataset(s)

Study Description

Citation

National Opinion Research Center. NATIONAL ELECTION STUDY, 1944. Conducted by University of Denver, National Opinion Research Center. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1991. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07210.v1

Methodology

Sample:
National quota sample.

Data Source:

personal interviews

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
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statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: